1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:25,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Protect 2 00:00:25,555 --> 00:00:32,835 Speaker 1: Elon Musk at all costs, also indict Elon Musk now. 3 00:00:33,835 --> 00:00:39,635 Speaker 1: Also don't let Elon Musk leave the White House. Yeah. 4 00:00:39,675 --> 00:00:42,675 Speaker 1: I know someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and 5 00:00:42,755 --> 00:00:47,595 Speaker 1: still remain fully functional. I'm an artist. Since Tuesday night, anyway, 6 00:00:47,955 --> 00:00:51,795 Speaker 1: three opposing viewpoints. For two days now, I've been wondering 7 00:00:51,795 --> 00:00:55,115 Speaker 1: whether to try to get Elon Musk arrested in Wisconsin 8 00:00:55,435 --> 00:00:58,675 Speaker 1: or to send him a gift basket of ketamin and acid, 9 00:00:59,275 --> 00:01:02,155 Speaker 1: all the while fearing that Politico is right, and even 10 00:01:02,195 --> 00:01:06,155 Speaker 1: Trump now realizes Musk couldn't be helping us more if 11 00:01:06,195 --> 00:01:10,035 Speaker 1: he were actually George Soros in a Musk mask. And 12 00:01:10,075 --> 00:01:13,595 Speaker 1: Trump has told cabinet members they're going to phase Musk 13 00:01:13,755 --> 00:01:16,755 Speaker 1: out by the end of May. And first the Press 14 00:01:16,795 --> 00:01:20,835 Speaker 1: Secretary of Softball Scholarships denied this, but by late yesterday 15 00:01:20,835 --> 00:01:24,075 Speaker 1: the fascists were leaking it out via Murdoch's New York Post. 16 00:01:24,395 --> 00:01:31,915 Speaker 1: Musk is on the way out. No no, no, no 17 00:01:33,875 --> 00:01:37,195 Speaker 1: more Musk. Give him all the drugs that he can do, 18 00:01:37,515 --> 00:01:39,835 Speaker 1: because all he wants to do is all he wants 19 00:01:39,875 --> 00:01:45,155 Speaker 1: to do is dance. While wearing a cheesehead and shaking 20 00:01:45,235 --> 00:01:50,515 Speaker 1: the Trump cult out of its hypnotized coma. Sure, it's 21 00:01:50,555 --> 00:01:54,555 Speaker 1: a felony to offer people money to vote or to 22 00:01:54,755 --> 00:01:58,435 Speaker 1: not vote, or to vote your way. And sure he 23 00:01:58,515 --> 00:02:03,195 Speaker 1: offered two giant, one million dollar checks, and sure he 24 00:02:03,275 --> 00:02:07,675 Speaker 1: offered twenty dollars bill for selfies holding up photos of 25 00:02:07,715 --> 00:02:12,795 Speaker 1: the unabashed fascist maga judge candidate at the polling places 26 00:02:12,955 --> 00:02:18,355 Speaker 1: where it is illegal to campaign like that. On the 27 00:02:18,395 --> 00:02:20,635 Speaker 1: other hand, if all that didn't win us the Wisconsin 28 00:02:20,675 --> 00:02:23,355 Speaker 1: Supreme Court election, I don't know what could have. Oh wait, 29 00:02:24,355 --> 00:02:26,875 Speaker 1: maybe it was when Musk went on Fox and said, 30 00:02:27,395 --> 00:02:30,915 Speaker 1: losing this judge race has good chance of causing Republicans 31 00:02:31,155 --> 00:02:34,635 Speaker 1: to lose control of the House. You lose control of 32 00:02:34,635 --> 00:02:41,275 Speaker 1: the House, there will be non stop impeachment hearings and subpoenas. 33 00:02:42,515 --> 00:02:48,915 Speaker 1: And America, Real America, Democracy America heard that and said, yes, 34 00:02:49,355 --> 00:02:53,435 Speaker 1: goddamn it, yes exactly, You sir, are the son of 35 00:02:53,475 --> 00:02:56,355 Speaker 1: a bitch we've been looking for all this time. Yes, 36 00:02:56,835 --> 00:03:02,395 Speaker 1: Republicans lose the House, NonStop impeachment hearings and subpoenas. Woo 37 00:03:02,435 --> 00:03:10,395 Speaker 1: effing ooh send that man some horse. I think Elon 38 00:03:10,515 --> 00:03:13,595 Speaker 1: Musk doesn't really know it yet, couldn't understand it if 39 00:03:13,595 --> 00:03:19,035 Speaker 1: he did, can't intuitively process America or any polyglot society. 40 00:03:19,555 --> 00:03:23,035 Speaker 1: Is so far inside his own bubble that he never 41 00:03:23,115 --> 00:03:26,235 Speaker 1: has to confront anybody who would tell him any of this. 42 00:03:26,635 --> 00:03:35,875 Speaker 1: But he maybe our way out of Trump. What we 43 00:03:35,915 --> 00:03:40,755 Speaker 1: saw Tuesday night was America versus Elon Musk, Democracy versus 44 00:03:40,755 --> 00:03:46,395 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, Life versus Elon Musk. Just when the anti 45 00:03:46,555 --> 00:03:50,155 Speaker 1: Trump message has been repeated so often that it barely 46 00:03:50,275 --> 00:03:54,515 Speaker 1: registers with you and me, worn down with a decade 47 00:03:54,515 --> 00:03:57,515 Speaker 1: of that stupid son of a bitch Trump, and that 48 00:03:57,635 --> 00:04:00,115 Speaker 1: stupid son of a bitch Trump somehow finds an even 49 00:04:00,195 --> 00:04:03,275 Speaker 1: stupider son of a bitch named Musk, and Musk has 50 00:04:03,315 --> 00:04:07,395 Speaker 1: all of Trump's failures, us that apartheid accent and the 51 00:04:07,435 --> 00:04:11,595 Speaker 1: pastiness of the ozempic attic and the on stage rhythm 52 00:04:11,675 --> 00:04:15,195 Speaker 1: of a victim of Saint Vitas's dance. Can we run 53 00:04:15,195 --> 00:04:18,435 Speaker 1: against Elon Musk? Not only in Wisconsin? Please? Can we 54 00:04:18,515 --> 00:04:23,555 Speaker 1: run against Elon Musk everywhere? You know what Elon Musk's 55 00:04:23,715 --> 00:04:29,995 Speaker 1: disapproval number is among Democrats in Wisconsin? Now, it's ninety 56 00:04:30,635 --> 00:04:36,795 Speaker 1: seven percent ninety seven percent. You can't get ninety seven 57 00:04:36,835 --> 00:04:39,275 Speaker 1: percent of Democrats to agree. How to spell the word 58 00:04:39,395 --> 00:04:46,155 Speaker 1: Democrats ninety seven percent disapproval. He's ninety four points underwater 59 00:04:46,235 --> 00:04:54,395 Speaker 1: on approval. More Musk spending, more millions, more Musk outspending. 60 00:04:54,515 --> 00:04:57,755 Speaker 1: George sorows ten to one. I want Musk in every 61 00:04:57,835 --> 00:05:00,915 Speaker 1: House and Senate race in this country next year. I 62 00:05:00,955 --> 00:05:03,875 Speaker 1: want him trying to buy the school Board of Hastings 63 00:05:03,915 --> 00:05:06,035 Speaker 1: on Hudson News, New York. I want him in a 64 00:05:06,115 --> 00:05:10,115 Speaker 1: cheesehead in Wisconsin, and in foam cowboy hats in Texas, 65 00:05:10,355 --> 00:05:13,635 Speaker 1: and in Gulf of America, trucker caps near the Gulf 66 00:05:13,675 --> 00:05:19,875 Speaker 1: of Mexico. And now he may be leaving the White House, 67 00:05:21,315 --> 00:05:25,675 Speaker 1: there is still hope. The Musk is on the way 68 00:05:25,715 --> 00:05:31,435 Speaker 1: out story evolved this way yesterday. Yesterday morning, Politico reported 69 00:05:31,515 --> 00:05:34,475 Speaker 1: quote Trump has told his inner circle, including members of 70 00:05:34,475 --> 00:05:37,955 Speaker 1: his cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in 71 00:05:37,995 --> 00:05:41,355 Speaker 1: the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, 72 00:05:41,875 --> 00:05:47,235 Speaker 1: ubiquitous cheerleader, and Washington hatchetman, and that this would be 73 00:05:47,235 --> 00:05:50,035 Speaker 1: pegged to the deadline to terminate the so called special 74 00:05:50,075 --> 00:05:53,715 Speaker 1: government employees. They're only allowed one hundred and thirty days. 75 00:05:54,035 --> 00:05:57,275 Speaker 1: That would be May thirtieth, unless the drugs were to 76 00:05:57,315 --> 00:06:02,115 Speaker 1: put somebody in suspended animation or something. I guess that, however, 77 00:06:02,235 --> 00:06:05,595 Speaker 1: is just the excuse. This is not tied to SGE 78 00:06:05,795 --> 00:06:08,555 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty day limits. It's tied, in fact 79 00:06:08,835 --> 00:06:13,675 Speaker 1: to Elease Steffanic Politico again quote. Trump is increasingly mindful 80 00:06:13,675 --> 00:06:17,155 Speaker 1: of next year's midterms and making sure he doesn't jeopardize 81 00:06:17,195 --> 00:06:20,355 Speaker 1: his House majority. He's kept a careful eye on the 82 00:06:20,355 --> 00:06:25,315 Speaker 1: town haul outrage over DOGE, even as Republicans have chalked 83 00:06:25,315 --> 00:06:29,915 Speaker 1: those scenes up to coordinated liberal stagecraft. His discussions about 84 00:06:29,995 --> 00:06:33,155 Speaker 1: next steps for Musk came just days before he grew 85 00:06:33,235 --> 00:06:36,235 Speaker 1: so worried about the GOP's narrow House margin that he 86 00:06:36,355 --> 00:06:40,955 Speaker 1: withdrew New York Rep Elise Staffhanic's nomination to be Ambassador 87 00:06:40,995 --> 00:06:44,595 Speaker 1: to the UN. This has nothing to do with one 88 00:06:44,635 --> 00:06:48,195 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty days. This has something to do with 89 00:06:48,275 --> 00:06:53,475 Speaker 1: a two vote margin. By late afternoon yesterday, one Trump 90 00:06:53,555 --> 00:06:56,875 Speaker 1: minion had told another Trump minion to print in The 91 00:06:56,875 --> 00:06:59,915 Speaker 1: New York Post a story headline, the real reason behind 92 00:06:59,915 --> 00:07:03,595 Speaker 1: Elon Musk's departure from DOGE and why it was always 93 00:07:03,675 --> 00:07:09,275 Speaker 1: part of the plan. H that's the story that sentence 94 00:07:09,315 --> 00:07:12,675 Speaker 1: repeated again and again with different constructions, that it was 95 00:07:12,715 --> 00:07:16,635 Speaker 1: always to be four months and out. White House sources 96 00:07:16,675 --> 00:07:19,195 Speaker 1: said the plan has always been to let Musk return 97 00:07:19,395 --> 00:07:27,195 Speaker 1: to civilian life after his SGE status expires. Bullshit. This 98 00:07:27,235 --> 00:07:31,395 Speaker 1: is the first time they've mentioned this, and anyway, as 99 00:07:31,435 --> 00:07:36,155 Speaker 1: I said, there is hope Politico. One senior Administration official said, 100 00:07:36,195 --> 00:07:38,915 Speaker 1: Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an 101 00:07:38,915 --> 00:07:42,715 Speaker 1: advisor and continue to be an occasional face around the 102 00:07:42,715 --> 00:07:47,995 Speaker 1: White House crowds. Oh thank Jesus. Another caution that anyone 103 00:07:47,995 --> 00:07:51,275 Speaker 1: who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump's 104 00:07:51,355 --> 00:08:00,755 Speaker 1: orbit is fooling themselves. Gat. I promise I won't fool myself. 105 00:08:01,115 --> 00:08:04,995 Speaker 1: Keep them around photo ops, not think of substance. Just 106 00:08:05,155 --> 00:08:10,075 Speaker 1: keep his great uncontrollable ego and his perpetual fugue state 107 00:08:10,355 --> 00:08:13,515 Speaker 1: front and center often enough that the Democrats can keep 108 00:08:13,595 --> 00:08:16,835 Speaker 1: running against him until at least the midterms. And if 109 00:08:16,875 --> 00:08:21,595 Speaker 1: Trump stops pushing Musk, if Musk stops blowing up like 110 00:08:21,675 --> 00:08:25,395 Speaker 1: some of his own rockets, we have to take over. 111 00:08:25,755 --> 00:08:29,435 Speaker 1: We then have to keep rebuilding the link between the 112 00:08:29,515 --> 00:08:34,675 Speaker 1: two of them, shackled to a corpse, each of them, 113 00:08:35,115 --> 00:08:40,515 Speaker 1: Musk and Trump, Musk and Trump, Trump and Musk, Trusk 114 00:08:40,755 --> 00:08:47,595 Speaker 1: and Mump, Truck and Mumps. Yeah. I want Elon Musk 115 00:08:47,635 --> 00:08:51,035 Speaker 1: indicted in Wisconsin because I want them all indicted in 116 00:08:51,115 --> 00:08:56,435 Speaker 1: Wisconsin and forty nine other states. I want Steven Miller 117 00:08:56,475 --> 00:09:01,635 Speaker 1: on the next plane to fing L Salvador. But more 118 00:09:01,675 --> 00:09:05,115 Speaker 1: than that, I want Elon Musk to win all our 119 00:09:05,315 --> 00:09:08,635 Speaker 1: races for us. And if he's gonna do that, he's 120 00:09:08,635 --> 00:09:11,675 Speaker 1: gonna need our help one way or the other in 121 00:09:11,915 --> 00:09:17,795 Speaker 1: for more still it, dude, he's gonna need that little 122 00:09:17,915 --> 00:09:22,115 Speaker 1: extra to keep him campaigning twenty four to seven. The 123 00:09:22,155 --> 00:09:25,235 Speaker 1: Trump part is easy. Just keep Trump convinced Musk is 124 00:09:25,395 --> 00:09:27,995 Speaker 1: funneling attention to Trump, and Trump will make sure he 125 00:09:28,075 --> 00:09:32,715 Speaker 1: grabs him whenever possible. But Musk himself, Musk's gonna need 126 00:09:32,755 --> 00:09:35,875 Speaker 1: all the drugs he can find, So won't you help? 127 00:09:36,195 --> 00:09:38,915 Speaker 1: Won't you gather all the drugs you can find and 128 00:09:39,075 --> 00:09:44,515 Speaker 1: send them on to him? More Musk all, Musk, all 129 00:09:44,595 --> 00:09:50,875 Speaker 1: the time, Musk today, Musk tomorrow, Musk forever. I want 130 00:09:51,035 --> 00:09:55,755 Speaker 1: Musk's face with that crooked eyes unfocused. The stuff just 131 00:09:55,915 --> 00:10:04,355 Speaker 1: kicked in smirk of his visible at every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, headhouse, outhouse, doghouse, 132 00:10:04,955 --> 00:10:35,155 Speaker 1: white house in America. In mind of the first ten 133 00:10:35,195 --> 00:10:37,555 Speaker 1: minutes of today's podcast, I would like to point out 134 00:10:37,555 --> 00:10:40,235 Speaker 1: that I was the breaking news anchor for MSNBC, and 135 00:10:40,315 --> 00:10:43,675 Speaker 1: for one week about twenty years ago, every night I 136 00:10:43,755 --> 00:10:46,155 Speaker 1: was on for six hours talking about how the pope 137 00:10:46,235 --> 00:10:51,875 Speaker 1: was dying. Not with that inflection, all right, let me 138 00:10:51,875 --> 00:10:54,355 Speaker 1: explain some of the other headlines. Briefly. Trump's day of 139 00:10:54,395 --> 00:10:58,795 Speaker 1: Liberation actually means his liberation from paying taxes. That is 140 00:10:58,835 --> 00:11:01,635 Speaker 1: the substance to this, though the root cause in Trump's 141 00:11:01,715 --> 00:11:06,515 Speaker 1: brain dead head for tariffs is far dumber. Ten percent 142 00:11:06,595 --> 00:11:11,235 Speaker 1: tariffs on all training partners, fifty four percent on China, 143 00:11:11,475 --> 00:11:14,155 Speaker 1: twenty four percent for the European Union, which Trump still 144 00:11:14,155 --> 00:11:17,195 Speaker 1: thinks is a country, twenty six on India, et cetera. 145 00:11:18,075 --> 00:11:21,955 Speaker 1: After hours, Gee whiz, who would have expected this? The 146 00:11:21,995 --> 00:11:26,195 Speaker 1: market crashed, which is not just the standard response from 147 00:11:26,275 --> 00:11:30,195 Speaker 1: betrayed Trump's supporters. I didn't expect him to eat my face. 148 00:11:30,715 --> 00:11:34,875 Speaker 1: This is something beyond that. This is other leopards learning 149 00:11:34,915 --> 00:11:39,675 Speaker 1: that the leopard eating faces party are also cannibals and 150 00:11:39,755 --> 00:11:45,115 Speaker 1: will eat leopards faces too. This will not end well 151 00:11:45,195 --> 00:11:50,315 Speaker 1: for Trump, and just how not well, we will get 152 00:11:50,315 --> 00:11:53,995 Speaker 1: an idea very quickly. I might actually watch the opening 153 00:11:53,995 --> 00:11:57,355 Speaker 1: bell of the stock market for the first time in 154 00:11:57,475 --> 00:12:06,515 Speaker 1: my life, just to see if some fascists CEO unfurls 155 00:12:06,555 --> 00:12:14,155 Speaker 1: a flag that reads impeach Trump today, tariffs or madness. 156 00:12:14,355 --> 00:12:17,875 Speaker 1: Of course, they will destroy tourism to this country, probably 157 00:12:17,955 --> 00:12:22,475 Speaker 1: raise domestic prices five to ten percent, kill international trade, 158 00:12:22,635 --> 00:12:27,635 Speaker 1: destroy American farming, worldwide depression absolutely possible now. And the 159 00:12:27,755 --> 00:12:31,715 Speaker 1: ultimate reason for doing this as he learned to mimic 160 00:12:31,875 --> 00:12:35,595 Speaker 1: human behavior, which is, as we know, not natural to Trump. 161 00:12:35,955 --> 00:12:39,595 Speaker 1: Trump obviously and very early on in his existence, became 162 00:12:39,635 --> 00:12:44,755 Speaker 1: fixated with the idea and the color of gold. He 163 00:12:44,795 --> 00:12:48,395 Speaker 1: doesn't really understand gold. He does not know the difference 164 00:12:48,435 --> 00:12:55,355 Speaker 1: between gold and gold plate, or gold plastic and gold rustolium, 165 00:12:55,635 --> 00:12:58,795 Speaker 1: which is why his buildings look like that's so cheap, 166 00:12:59,515 --> 00:13:02,595 Speaker 1: and why his bronzer looks so bad, and why his 167 00:13:02,715 --> 00:13:06,555 Speaker 1: hair looks so fake. That's one of the reasons people 168 00:13:06,595 --> 00:13:11,035 Speaker 1: who knew him believed in the pee tape. The color 169 00:13:13,035 --> 00:13:16,795 Speaker 1: so the eighteen nineties he found out and apparently relatively 170 00:13:16,875 --> 00:13:20,715 Speaker 1: recently or he just remembered it recently. Were called the 171 00:13:20,875 --> 00:13:28,035 Speaker 1: Gilded age guilded gold cupboard, and it sort of looks 172 00:13:28,075 --> 00:13:33,555 Speaker 1: like the word gold guild, gold, gold, guild, gold good, 173 00:13:33,755 --> 00:13:38,555 Speaker 1: eighteen nineties good, eighteen nineties gold rich, super rich. No 174 00:13:38,755 --> 00:13:42,355 Speaker 1: taxes in the eighteen nineties, only tariffs. So bring back tariffs, 175 00:13:42,355 --> 00:13:46,355 Speaker 1: big tariffs, big beautiful tariffs, bingo fifty four percent tariff 176 00:13:46,395 --> 00:13:52,235 Speaker 1: on Chinese goods, because this human like multi celled parasite 177 00:13:52,955 --> 00:14:00,635 Speaker 1: once learned gold good. Okay, the disappearing by our government 178 00:14:00,635 --> 00:14:03,755 Speaker 1: of Kilmar Abrego, Garcia. They sent a man who was 179 00:14:03,835 --> 00:14:06,675 Speaker 1: legally entitled to be here, whom this country in fact 180 00:14:06,795 --> 00:14:10,915 Speaker 1: ruled during Trump's first presidency. We were protecting from going 181 00:14:10,955 --> 00:14:13,355 Speaker 1: back to El Salvador because he would be tortured and 182 00:14:13,515 --> 00:14:16,835 Speaker 1: killed there, and Trump sent him back because of what 183 00:14:16,875 --> 00:14:19,955 Speaker 1: they now claim is a clerical error by Ice, which 184 00:14:19,995 --> 00:14:22,755 Speaker 1: it cannot correct because it can't force El Salvador to 185 00:14:22,835 --> 00:14:26,595 Speaker 1: return him, which is bullshit, because all it has to 186 00:14:26,635 --> 00:14:28,955 Speaker 1: do is threaten to cut the money off going to 187 00:14:29,035 --> 00:14:33,155 Speaker 1: the corrupt Al Salvador strong man, and mister Abrego will 188 00:14:33,195 --> 00:14:36,835 Speaker 1: be home for breakfast. And if Tom Holman and Pete 189 00:14:36,875 --> 00:14:41,155 Speaker 1: Hegseth and the insufferable child JV. Vance and that inflatable 190 00:14:41,275 --> 00:14:45,195 Speaker 1: rubber device known as Christy Nome claim they can't extract him, 191 00:14:45,635 --> 00:14:47,515 Speaker 1: you go to them and you say you get him 192 00:14:47,555 --> 00:14:51,755 Speaker 1: back or you have to go get him personally. They 193 00:14:51,875 --> 00:14:55,195 Speaker 1: are still doing this deliberately to that man and others 194 00:14:55,395 --> 00:14:58,595 Speaker 1: because it's part of the plan and there is no 195 00:14:58,835 --> 00:15:04,395 Speaker 1: legal retribution against these scumbags, especially this deviant flotation device. 196 00:15:04,475 --> 00:15:07,515 Speaker 1: No home. That will be too extreme and it will 197 00:15:07,555 --> 00:15:11,835 Speaker 1: come soon or late. Hope you got a good look 198 00:15:11,835 --> 00:15:16,035 Speaker 1: at that prison. Christy or mister Abrigo was in line 199 00:15:16,075 --> 00:15:21,035 Speaker 1: looking for day labor in twenty nineteen and the cops 200 00:15:21,075 --> 00:15:25,315 Speaker 1: picked him up and they claimed a confidential informant who 201 00:15:25,355 --> 00:15:27,755 Speaker 1: may or may not have ever existed, said he was 202 00:15:27,755 --> 00:15:31,435 Speaker 1: in the MS thirteen gang in another state in which 203 00:15:31,435 --> 00:15:34,515 Speaker 1: the man never lived. And they claim this because he 204 00:15:34,595 --> 00:15:38,675 Speaker 1: was wearing Chicago Bulls clothing, which is really bad news 205 00:15:38,835 --> 00:15:44,115 Speaker 1: for like Michael Jordan, I want Tom Holman and Christy 206 00:15:44,195 --> 00:15:46,715 Speaker 1: Noman JD. Vance who was still slandering this man. I 207 00:15:46,755 --> 00:15:49,675 Speaker 1: want them in the El Salvador in prison instead of 208 00:15:49,715 --> 00:15:52,475 Speaker 1: mister Abrigio and in twenty twenty nine, I want the 209 00:15:52,515 --> 00:15:54,675 Speaker 1: President to say, oh, while they're in there now, I'm sorry, 210 00:15:54,715 --> 00:15:57,035 Speaker 1: there's nothing we can do about getting them back. They're 211 00:15:57,115 --> 00:16:01,435 Speaker 1: out of our control now, the president twenty twenty nine, 212 00:16:01,635 --> 00:16:08,675 Speaker 1: President Booker, Sure, that's fine. President Okasio Cortes, President President. 213 00:16:08,715 --> 00:16:12,315 Speaker 1: Whoever is narking on Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth, I'll 214 00:16:12,315 --> 00:16:16,755 Speaker 1: take him. That is not over. Leaks last week about 215 00:16:16,755 --> 00:16:21,115 Speaker 1: Hegzeth bringing the wife to sensitive international intelligence meetings, Leaks 216 00:16:21,195 --> 00:16:25,115 Speaker 1: this week about Waltz and staff using Gmail for technical 217 00:16:25,155 --> 00:16:30,275 Speaker 1: conversations and for his schedule. Once again, amateurs like Waltz 218 00:16:30,315 --> 00:16:34,315 Speaker 1: and Hegseeth don't realize that your schedule tells the spies 219 00:16:34,955 --> 00:16:39,155 Speaker 1: when you will be somewhere and when other people will 220 00:16:39,155 --> 00:16:42,195 Speaker 1: be somewhere, in case you know they want to blow 221 00:16:42,315 --> 00:16:45,795 Speaker 1: you up or just to access all the places you 222 00:16:45,955 --> 00:16:49,635 Speaker 1: won't be. And don't tell me that your Gmail is secure. 223 00:16:50,435 --> 00:16:54,355 Speaker 1: I once heard from the Gmail people that the Russian 224 00:16:54,395 --> 00:17:00,875 Speaker 1: State actors had hacked my Gmail. Waltz and Hegseth is 225 00:17:00,915 --> 00:17:04,395 Speaker 1: not over, and the third term stuff is not over. 226 00:17:04,435 --> 00:17:07,235 Speaker 1: Again a reminder, this is not going to be a 227 00:17:07,315 --> 00:17:10,835 Speaker 1: bid to let any president get a third term. This 228 00:17:10,915 --> 00:17:15,755 Speaker 1: will only be Trump, not Obama, not Clinton, not Bush, 229 00:17:16,195 --> 00:17:19,555 Speaker 1: just Trump and Grover Cleveland, who's been dead since nineteen 230 00:17:19,555 --> 00:17:24,035 Speaker 1: to eight, whether on the non consecutive terms bullshit or 231 00:17:24,075 --> 00:17:27,475 Speaker 1: some other bullshit. Sam Alito dreams up and Lawrence tribe 232 00:17:27,515 --> 00:17:29,995 Speaker 1: has another hole in the defensive line. They can drive 233 00:17:30,035 --> 00:17:32,555 Speaker 1: a mac truck through, just to haunt your dreams a 234 00:17:32,555 --> 00:17:36,395 Speaker 1: little further, quoting him. Anyone discounting a third Trump term 235 00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:39,035 Speaker 1: per the twenty second Amendment and the twelfth Amendment is 236 00:17:39,115 --> 00:17:43,475 Speaker 1: thinking magically. The twenty second doesn't bar serving a third term, 237 00:17:43,795 --> 00:17:47,955 Speaker 1: only being elected three times. The twelfth doesn't bar running 238 00:17:48,035 --> 00:17:52,515 Speaker 1: for VP unless ineligible to serve as president. But Trump 239 00:17:52,595 --> 00:18:00,155 Speaker 1: isn't ineligible qed. So like last year, the easiest scenario 240 00:18:00,755 --> 00:18:05,595 Speaker 1: Trump runs, says, try and stop me, and his Supreme 241 00:18:05,635 --> 00:18:11,675 Speaker 1: Court doesn't. And Trump can almost taste this. I mean, 242 00:18:11,795 --> 00:18:14,475 Speaker 1: listen to him. He's dying to say it. 243 00:18:14,675 --> 00:18:18,475 Speaker 2: You we're not joking about a third term, about possibly 244 00:18:18,475 --> 00:18:21,115 Speaker 2: planning a third term? Does that mean you're not planning 245 00:18:21,155 --> 00:18:21,995 Speaker 2: to leave Amason. 246 00:18:22,315 --> 00:18:24,115 Speaker 3: I'm not looking at that, but I'll tell you I 247 00:18:24,155 --> 00:18:27,675 Speaker 3: have had more people asking me do have a third term, 248 00:18:27,715 --> 00:18:29,915 Speaker 3: which is in a way at the fourth term because 249 00:18:29,955 --> 00:18:33,115 Speaker 3: the other election, the twenty twenty election, was totally rigged, 250 00:18:34,155 --> 00:18:36,035 Speaker 3: So it's actually sort of a fourth term in a 251 00:18:36,035 --> 00:18:37,955 Speaker 3: certain way. I just don't want the credit for the 252 00:18:38,035 --> 00:18:41,155 Speaker 3: second because Biden was so bad. He did such a 253 00:18:41,235 --> 00:18:44,195 Speaker 3: man job, and I think that's one of the reasons 254 00:18:44,235 --> 00:18:44,955 Speaker 3: that I'm popular. 255 00:18:45,035 --> 00:18:55,995 Speaker 1: If you wander the truth and from what passes for 256 00:18:56,155 --> 00:19:00,835 Speaker 1: our news media and our serene political discourse, Bill Maher 257 00:19:01,995 --> 00:19:05,395 Speaker 1: has lost whatever small amount of self control he had left. 258 00:19:05,875 --> 00:19:10,555 Speaker 1: Oh my god, just as mar is killing off every 259 00:19:10,795 --> 00:19:14,995 Speaker 1: last one of his fans with his tiny, bare hands, 260 00:19:16,275 --> 00:19:21,955 Speaker 1: Bill thinks he's some kind of healing deity from Fox 261 00:19:23,435 --> 00:19:27,155 Speaker 1: and the statesman who made all this happen, Ambassador kid Rock. 262 00:19:29,115 --> 00:19:33,195 Speaker 1: Trump took mar at the White House Monday night to 263 00:19:33,275 --> 00:19:37,075 Speaker 1: see the Lincoln bedroom and to see a copy of 264 00:19:37,115 --> 00:19:41,915 Speaker 1: the Gettysburg Address. Bill, I hate to break this to 265 00:19:41,995 --> 00:19:45,475 Speaker 1: you at this late date, but as a member of 266 00:19:45,515 --> 00:19:47,755 Speaker 1: the class of Cornell seventy nine, and you as a 267 00:19:47,755 --> 00:19:49,955 Speaker 1: member of the class of Cornell seventy eight, you do 268 00:19:50,075 --> 00:19:52,955 Speaker 1: know that Cornell has had a copy of the Gettysburg 269 00:19:52,955 --> 00:19:56,675 Speaker 1: Address hand copied by Lincoln at the request of Ambassador 270 00:19:56,755 --> 00:20:00,555 Speaker 1: George Bancroft. They've had it since the nineteenth century. Was 271 00:20:00,595 --> 00:20:04,595 Speaker 1: in a house at Cornell Bancroft's grandson, and then they 272 00:20:04,715 --> 00:20:08,675 Speaker 1: bought it back and it was donated and they keep 273 00:20:08,715 --> 00:20:11,195 Speaker 1: it right now under URIs Library and they show it 274 00:20:11,235 --> 00:20:14,395 Speaker 1: to classes at Cornell, but of course you never went 275 00:20:14,435 --> 00:20:17,595 Speaker 1: to class, and they also show it though they show 276 00:20:17,595 --> 00:20:23,515 Speaker 1: it to alumni. They like, Oh okay, ego, trip over. 277 00:20:23,715 --> 00:20:26,955 Speaker 1: This is the operative part from Fox. Kid Rock said 278 00:20:26,995 --> 00:20:29,315 Speaker 1: that he told mar before the meeting some of this 279 00:20:29,395 --> 00:20:31,275 Speaker 1: Hollywood stuff, it would be great for you to get 280 00:20:31,315 --> 00:20:33,915 Speaker 1: thrown out, probably be great for you to double down. 281 00:20:33,955 --> 00:20:38,435 Speaker 1: You know, I can't stand this guy, mar kid Rock said, 282 00:20:38,435 --> 00:20:42,675 Speaker 1: told him, I'm not going to sabotage something that could 283 00:20:42,675 --> 00:20:49,515 Speaker 1: potentially bring us and other people together. Oh my god, 284 00:20:49,555 --> 00:20:52,235 Speaker 1: it's the beginning of the predicted two thousand years of 285 00:20:52,355 --> 00:20:56,075 Speaker 1: universal peace when Bill Maher and Donald Trump are brought 286 00:20:56,115 --> 00:21:02,155 Speaker 1: together and they unzip and stage an actual battle with 287 00:21:02,235 --> 00:21:09,155 Speaker 1: their tiny little egos. And I'm going to to advertize 288 00:21:09,235 --> 00:21:15,755 Speaker 1: something that could potentially bring other people together. There, Oh god, Bill, 289 00:21:15,835 --> 00:21:17,955 Speaker 1: for crying out loud. If you just tell the truth 290 00:21:17,955 --> 00:21:20,715 Speaker 1: and say, look, my new boss is this idiot david'saz 291 00:21:20,795 --> 00:21:24,235 Speaker 1: lab of Warner Bros. Discovery and the fascists who now 292 00:21:24,275 --> 00:21:27,475 Speaker 1: own CNN and HBO and him. And if I don't 293 00:21:27,475 --> 00:21:29,835 Speaker 1: go as far pro Trump as I can, they'll fire 294 00:21:29,875 --> 00:21:33,675 Speaker 1: me and they'll replace me with with Chris Cuomo or 295 00:21:33,675 --> 00:21:37,035 Speaker 1: somebody who's an even bigger whore than I am. Just 296 00:21:37,115 --> 00:21:39,395 Speaker 1: admit it and we go fine, we got it. Go ahead, 297 00:21:39,395 --> 00:21:45,835 Speaker 1: nobody's watching anyway. Chris Cuomo on stage on Long Island 298 00:21:46,315 --> 00:21:49,875 Speaker 1: with what used to be Bill O'Reilly and the new 299 00:21:49,955 --> 00:21:56,795 Speaker 1: giant of American political analysis, Stephen A. Smith. Three Americans. 300 00:21:57,195 --> 00:22:01,835 Speaker 1: They called this. This is how little Stephen A. Smith 301 00:22:01,915 --> 00:22:05,515 Speaker 1: knows of the world going on around him. He attacked 302 00:22:05,555 --> 00:22:10,595 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly on stage, which, trust me, was pretty much 303 00:22:10,595 --> 00:22:14,955 Speaker 1: exhausted by the year twenty eleven. Quote. You and I 304 00:22:15,035 --> 00:22:17,275 Speaker 1: hey got into it when we were on Cuomo's show 305 00:22:17,275 --> 00:22:20,515 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Steve Bannon comes on national 306 00:22:20,555 --> 00:22:23,875 Speaker 1: television with a straight face first and then smirk thereafter, 307 00:22:24,075 --> 00:22:27,075 Speaker 1: talking about violating the Constitution of the United States, the 308 00:22:27,115 --> 00:22:31,475 Speaker 1: twenty second Amendment two terms. He said three. Chris Cromo says, yo, 309 00:22:31,675 --> 00:22:35,395 Speaker 1: you understand what the twenty second amendment says right. He said, yeah, No, 310 00:22:35,555 --> 00:22:41,795 Speaker 1: we're working on it. Everybody just glosses over it. That's right, Steven, 311 00:22:42,035 --> 00:22:44,835 Speaker 1: everybody's been glossing over it. No, but nobody's been talking 312 00:22:44,875 --> 00:22:49,555 Speaker 1: about Trump's claims plots to get a third term. Nobody's 313 00:22:49,555 --> 00:22:52,195 Speaker 1: been mentioning this other than all of us who've been 314 00:22:52,235 --> 00:22:56,755 Speaker 1: saying it since twenty fifteen, or the actual movement within 315 00:22:56,835 --> 00:23:01,835 Speaker 1: the conservative ranks and the quote unquote scholarly reinterpretations of 316 00:23:01,875 --> 00:23:04,595 Speaker 1: the twenty second Amendment that began on the far rid 317 00:23:05,795 --> 00:23:08,235 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three to get them a third term. 318 00:23:08,475 --> 00:23:13,835 Speaker 1: Just you, you're the first one who noticed. Steven also 319 00:23:13,915 --> 00:23:17,635 Speaker 1: reports there's something called the National Basketball Association. Thank you 320 00:23:17,675 --> 00:23:19,515 Speaker 1: for mentioning that, Stephen. None of the rest of us 321 00:23:19,675 --> 00:23:24,915 Speaker 1: new although I'm beginning to smell a new host for 322 00:23:25,115 --> 00:23:32,515 Speaker 1: HBO Real Time with Steven A. Smith, or put them 323 00:23:32,555 --> 00:23:36,315 Speaker 1: on MSNBC in the mornings, God knows it's that, or 324 00:23:36,355 --> 00:23:43,075 Speaker 1: cartoons in black and white from Oliver Darcy's status. The 325 00:23:43,235 --> 00:23:49,915 Speaker 1: quarter one ratings are in for cable news. MSNBC averaged 326 00:23:49,995 --> 00:23:55,155 Speaker 1: one point two million viewers in prime time, down eighteen 327 00:23:55,275 --> 00:23:59,795 Speaker 1: percent year over year. CNN averaged five hundred and fifty 328 00:23:59,835 --> 00:24:02,955 Speaker 1: eight thousand viewers in prime down six percent over the 329 00:24:03,035 --> 00:24:08,995 Speaker 1: same period. One interesting nugget. I'm told that CNN's News 330 00:24:09,435 --> 00:24:14,595 Speaker 1: Central beat MSNBC's Morning Joe in the Advertiser coveted at 331 00:24:14,675 --> 00:24:17,155 Speaker 1: twenty five to fifty four demographic for the first time 332 00:24:17,195 --> 00:24:22,995 Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two, a sign Oliver is really in 333 00:24:23,075 --> 00:24:26,515 Speaker 1: self control. Here a sign that the Joe Scarborough and 334 00:24:26,555 --> 00:24:30,275 Speaker 1: Mika Brazinski led show still hasn't recovered after the marri 335 00:24:30,355 --> 00:24:35,475 Speaker 1: Lago pilgrimage aimed at cozying up to Trump. Let me 336 00:24:35,555 --> 00:24:38,875 Speaker 1: give you a quick pro tip. It's not going to recover. 337 00:24:39,395 --> 00:24:43,195 Speaker 1: They're going to have to fire Joe Scarborough, or at 338 00:24:43,275 --> 00:24:46,515 Speaker 1: least bring in a new Joe Scarborough, somebody else playing 339 00:24:46,555 --> 00:24:50,995 Speaker 1: the role of Joe Scarborough, Caul Lawrence, o'donald, Joe Scarborough. 340 00:24:52,595 --> 00:24:58,315 Speaker 1: Who will notice the difference except Mika. Maybe. The Morning 341 00:24:58,395 --> 00:25:02,835 Speaker 1: Joe ratings have always been bad. They are what a 342 00:25:02,875 --> 00:25:05,835 Speaker 1: loss leader. That's a very niche audience. Everybody in that 343 00:25:05,995 --> 00:25:10,715 Speaker 1: niche It's like the White House Correspondence dinner with more 344 00:25:10,795 --> 00:25:14,955 Speaker 1: lights and better food. I might add that's true, but 345 00:25:15,115 --> 00:25:18,995 Speaker 1: below CNN, this is how bad it is. I have 346 00:25:19,195 --> 00:25:23,875 Speaker 1: been in television since nineteen eighty one. I started at 347 00:25:23,875 --> 00:25:26,995 Speaker 1: CNN in nineteen eighty one, in its second full year, 348 00:25:28,475 --> 00:25:32,275 Speaker 1: And as I'm reading this, I went, wait, CNN's morning 349 00:25:32,275 --> 00:25:36,515 Speaker 1: show is called News Central. Since when I didn't even 350 00:25:36,515 --> 00:25:38,755 Speaker 1: know the name of the show, and it's now beating 351 00:25:38,795 --> 00:25:42,835 Speaker 1: Morning Joe. The name of the CNN Morning show could 352 00:25:42,835 --> 00:25:46,075 Speaker 1: have been CNN Tonight, and I would have went, oh, 353 00:25:46,275 --> 00:25:56,395 Speaker 1: it's awesome, it's novel below. CNN is amazing, but the 354 00:25:56,635 --> 00:26:00,995 Speaker 1: MSNV Morning Show is not sufficient to explain the overall 355 00:26:00,995 --> 00:26:06,155 Speaker 1: collapse here. Averaging one point zero two million in primetime 356 00:26:08,155 --> 00:26:14,515 Speaker 1: total viewers in primetime, that's like what we were doing 357 00:26:14,515 --> 00:26:20,435 Speaker 1: in two thousand and four. The new company and whoever 358 00:26:20,595 --> 00:26:24,475 Speaker 1: is buying it or going to buy it wants this. 359 00:26:24,915 --> 00:26:27,995 Speaker 1: That's the point. They're tanking it. They're tanking it the 360 00:26:28,035 --> 00:26:33,955 Speaker 1: way Warner Bros. Tanked CNN and Mar whether he knows 361 00:26:33,995 --> 00:26:38,835 Speaker 1: it or not, the way Mar is tanking. There's one 362 00:26:38,915 --> 00:26:41,435 Speaker 1: more move MSNBC can make to seal the deal. Now. 363 00:26:41,435 --> 00:26:44,275 Speaker 1: It's not Stephen A. Smith. I think he should be 364 00:26:44,355 --> 00:26:48,115 Speaker 1: doing the CBS Evening News. Actually Chuck Todd in the mornings. 365 00:26:49,275 --> 00:26:53,195 Speaker 1: I'm serious, No, I'm not serious. But there was a 366 00:26:53,235 --> 00:26:56,515 Speaker 1: New York Times story yesterday about Chuck a scoop they claimed. 367 00:26:56,635 --> 00:26:58,595 Speaker 1: I've read it three times. I still don't get it, though. 368 00:26:58,595 --> 00:27:00,915 Speaker 1: I think now, if you told me that Chuck Todd 369 00:27:00,915 --> 00:27:04,155 Speaker 1: has spent all this time writing all those bad headlines 370 00:27:04,155 --> 00:27:07,075 Speaker 1: in the New York those both sidesist headlines, I would 371 00:27:07,115 --> 00:27:11,875 Speaker 1: believe you. And the payoff was this thirteen fourteen paragraph 372 00:27:11,955 --> 00:27:16,355 Speaker 1: story about I still don't know what this story is about. Quote. 373 00:27:16,755 --> 00:27:19,595 Speaker 1: After leaving the corporate home of Meet the Press in January, 374 00:27:20,515 --> 00:27:25,875 Speaker 1: he got fired. Mister Todd is embarking on a career 375 00:27:25,875 --> 00:27:30,475 Speaker 1: as a media entrepreneur. He has a podcast and a 376 00:27:30,555 --> 00:27:37,915 Speaker 1: YouTube channel. I've had a podcast for two and a 377 00:27:37,955 --> 00:27:42,275 Speaker 1: half years. I've had a YouTube channel for five years. 378 00:27:42,635 --> 00:27:45,995 Speaker 1: And guess what I am not. I'm not a media entrepreneur. 379 00:27:46,715 --> 00:27:51,435 Speaker 1: I have a podcast and a YouTube channel. This makes 380 00:27:51,475 --> 00:27:54,395 Speaker 1: me part of the majority in this country. I believe. 381 00:27:55,075 --> 00:27:57,515 Speaker 1: He has a podcast and a YouTube channel and plans 382 00:27:57,555 --> 00:28:00,795 Speaker 1: to hire other hosts for a podcast and video network 383 00:28:00,835 --> 00:28:04,955 Speaker 1: focused on politics and culture. He also said that he 384 00:28:04,995 --> 00:28:07,555 Speaker 1: was working with an advisor from a major financial firm 385 00:28:07,715 --> 00:28:12,875 Speaker 1: to build or acquire a company focused on community news. 386 00:28:14,675 --> 00:28:18,075 Speaker 1: Mister Todd's business plan, the Times goes on, calls for 387 00:28:18,115 --> 00:28:21,755 Speaker 1: a constellation of local sites owned by their communities, like 388 00:28:21,835 --> 00:28:25,595 Speaker 1: his beloved Green Bay Packers, and anchored by coverage of 389 00:28:28,515 --> 00:28:38,995 Speaker 1: local youth sports, local ute sports utes. The growing popularity 390 00:28:38,995 --> 00:28:42,955 Speaker 1: of athletics and their importance to families who view them 391 00:28:42,955 --> 00:28:46,115 Speaker 1: as a gateway to college make them an ideal subject 392 00:28:46,115 --> 00:28:49,435 Speaker 1: to build around. No matter your politics, mister Todd said, 393 00:28:49,715 --> 00:28:53,395 Speaker 1: you care about local coverage of your child's latest game. 394 00:28:56,035 --> 00:28:59,835 Speaker 1: Like all parents. Chuck thinks everybody else is also a parent. 395 00:29:00,435 --> 00:29:03,835 Speaker 1: The number of kids in scholastic sports in this country 396 00:29:04,035 --> 00:29:08,275 Speaker 1: is approximate lee one hundred and seventy five million. No, 397 00:29:08,355 --> 00:29:14,475 Speaker 1: it's eight million, eight million kids high school and grammar 398 00:29:14,515 --> 00:29:20,555 Speaker 1: school sports and college eight million. If a quarter of 399 00:29:20,755 --> 00:29:26,635 Speaker 1: all parents of scholastic athletes in this country use Chuck's 400 00:29:26,995 --> 00:29:34,515 Speaker 1: network of websites, that's four million people. If it's a brilliant, 401 00:29:34,595 --> 00:29:38,995 Speaker 1: almost total success, the ceiling is four million people. Maybe. 402 00:29:39,475 --> 00:29:42,755 Speaker 1: And here is here is what he thinks that's worth. 403 00:29:43,835 --> 00:29:45,835 Speaker 1: Quote mister Todd and the bank he is working with 404 00:29:45,955 --> 00:29:49,915 Speaker 1: there eyeing a purchase that could cost up to two 405 00:29:50,355 --> 00:30:05,155 Speaker 1: billion dollars. He said. He declined to say whether he 406 00:30:05,195 --> 00:30:10,075 Speaker 1: had lined up any backers or specify the company they 407 00:30:10,075 --> 00:30:14,755 Speaker 1: were looking at, but he ruled out major newspaper publishers. 408 00:30:15,875 --> 00:30:17,995 Speaker 1: You know what major newspapers you could get for two 409 00:30:17,995 --> 00:30:24,355 Speaker 1: billion dollars, all of them. That's two billion dollars for 410 00:30:24,755 --> 00:30:32,115 Speaker 1: podcasts or websites about high school sports scores or podcasts 411 00:30:32,195 --> 00:30:36,595 Speaker 1: where the first guest is as his first podcast guest 412 00:30:36,755 --> 00:30:42,555 Speaker 1: was John Fetterman. Couldn't get Chris Cuomo and Steven A. 413 00:30:42,635 --> 00:30:49,195 Speaker 1: Smith two billion dollars for podcasts, Chuck for two billion dollars, 414 00:30:49,555 --> 00:30:59,995 Speaker 1: you better be getting two billion podcasts. Ah. Also of interest, 415 00:30:59,995 --> 00:31:03,635 Speaker 1: here we're going to talk about Chuck. I'm going to 416 00:31:03,675 --> 00:31:07,675 Speaker 1: talk about Chuck about when I hit the wall and 417 00:31:07,715 --> 00:31:09,995 Speaker 1: had enough of him. It's going on six years now. 418 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:13,555 Speaker 1: I'm very proud I was a trendsetter because this is 419 00:31:13,595 --> 00:31:15,915 Speaker 1: the way he thinks. He thinks he can get two 420 00:31:15,955 --> 00:31:19,115 Speaker 1: billion dollars to go into this new field of podcasting 421 00:31:19,435 --> 00:31:24,035 Speaker 1: about high school sports. Everybody has a kid playing sports. 422 00:31:26,275 --> 00:31:29,395 Speaker 1: Also Ahead, one of the worst human beings of the 423 00:31:29,395 --> 00:31:40,195 Speaker 1: twentieth century is now dead. He transcends the stories of transphobia, politics, sports, fascism, television, 424 00:31:40,235 --> 00:31:45,195 Speaker 1: News Renee Richards and Tucker Carlson. He's part of all 425 00:31:45,235 --> 00:31:49,555 Speaker 1: of those stories and he's dead. And I unapologetically say 426 00:31:49,755 --> 00:31:54,955 Speaker 1: I'm glad because I'm a believer in for whom the 427 00:31:55,035 --> 00:31:58,955 Speaker 1: Bill tolds. But I will remain until my death unconvinced 428 00:31:59,155 --> 00:32:03,075 Speaker 1: this guy was ever actually for one minute, a human being. 429 00:32:04,315 --> 00:32:10,755 Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith 430 00:32:10,755 --> 00:32:35,435 Speaker 1: Alberman still ahead. In this new edition of Countdown. Well, 431 00:32:35,875 --> 00:32:41,275 Speaker 1: I mentioned Chuck Todd podcast billionaire. He owns a mansion 432 00:32:41,315 --> 00:32:44,155 Speaker 1: and a yacht. He's going to start a two billion 433 00:32:44,195 --> 00:32:52,275 Speaker 1: dollar podcast network based on high school sports scores or something. 434 00:32:53,315 --> 00:32:55,435 Speaker 1: I wasn't quite clear. And I read the article one 435 00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:58,395 Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen times, but it has to be true. 436 00:32:58,395 --> 00:33:00,435 Speaker 1: It's in the New York Times. And I think we 437 00:33:00,555 --> 00:33:03,555 Speaker 1: finally now know who's been writing all those headlines in 438 00:33:03,595 --> 00:33:06,275 Speaker 1: the New York Times the few plague years. It's been 439 00:33:06,395 --> 00:33:10,515 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd. Have I ever told you my Chuck Todd story? 440 00:33:11,315 --> 00:33:14,315 Speaker 1: Actually I have, Well a fat I'm gonna tell it 441 00:33:14,355 --> 00:33:18,355 Speaker 1: to you again in Things I promised not to tell 442 00:33:19,035 --> 00:33:22,195 Speaker 1: next first, believe it or not, there's still more new 443 00:33:22,275 --> 00:33:25,235 Speaker 1: idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscrants, morons 444 00:33:25,435 --> 00:33:28,995 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other 445 00:33:29,395 --> 00:33:33,635 Speaker 1: Worst Persons in the World. Here are the nominees the 446 00:33:33,675 --> 00:33:38,115 Speaker 1: Bronze Worst BBC News. Now I'm kind of soft pedaling 447 00:33:38,195 --> 00:33:40,675 Speaker 1: this because if I thought it was not an accident, 448 00:33:41,355 --> 00:33:45,435 Speaker 1: just one of those things, I would have led the 449 00:33:45,555 --> 00:33:48,315 Speaker 1: show with it. As you know, there are at least 450 00:33:48,395 --> 00:33:51,555 Speaker 1: twenty five hundred people dead in me on Mar after 451 00:33:51,555 --> 00:33:55,395 Speaker 1: the horrible earthquake that was so destructive at knockdown buildings 452 00:33:55,675 --> 00:33:59,235 Speaker 1: in Thailand, one of the most affected cities in me 453 00:33:59,355 --> 00:34:01,715 Speaker 1: on Mar, and details are still being withheld by the 454 00:34:01,755 --> 00:34:08,155 Speaker 1: military dictatorship. There is Mandalay. If you know anything about Mandalay. 455 00:34:08,515 --> 00:34:11,515 Speaker 1: If you've heard the name of the city of Mandalay, 456 00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:16,075 Speaker 1: it's probably from a song. There is a Rudyard Kipling 457 00:34:16,155 --> 00:34:20,635 Speaker 1: poem on the Road to Mandalay from eighteen ninety that 458 00:34:20,715 --> 00:34:23,035 Speaker 1: they set to music twenty years later, and it is 459 00:34:23,715 --> 00:34:30,515 Speaker 1: classic British imperialist cornball nonsense, with lyrics centered around on 460 00:34:30,595 --> 00:34:34,915 Speaker 1: the Road to Mandalay. I won't say the whole thing, 461 00:34:34,955 --> 00:34:38,155 Speaker 1: but it's on the Road to Mandalay where the flying 462 00:34:38,435 --> 00:34:42,435 Speaker 1: Fishies play and the dawn comes up like thunder outer 463 00:34:42,635 --> 00:34:48,195 Speaker 1: China crossed the Bay on the road to Mandalay. Then 464 00:34:48,195 --> 00:34:50,515 Speaker 1: there was another song called the Road to Mandalay by 465 00:34:50,595 --> 00:34:53,795 Speaker 1: Robbie Williams, like twenty years ago, and the same lyric 466 00:34:53,915 --> 00:34:58,235 Speaker 1: is in that totally different context on the Road to Mandalay. 467 00:34:59,595 --> 00:35:02,315 Speaker 1: So this is the key to the thing that there 468 00:35:02,355 --> 00:35:05,875 Speaker 1: are songs that have been sung for literally one hundred 469 00:35:05,875 --> 00:35:10,915 Speaker 1: and fifteen years that have this lyric on the Road 470 00:35:11,035 --> 00:35:18,915 Speaker 1: to Mandalay. So the BBC's otherwise extraordinary report, including hard 471 00:35:18,955 --> 00:35:22,595 Speaker 1: to smuggle out video of mean mar after the earthquake. 472 00:35:23,235 --> 00:35:26,995 Speaker 1: Their report on Tuesday from their correspondent somehow reporting from 473 00:35:27,035 --> 00:35:31,395 Speaker 1: behind the lines, opened with that reporter narrating video of 474 00:35:31,475 --> 00:35:35,355 Speaker 1: the destruction that was shot from a moving vehicle, and 475 00:35:35,435 --> 00:35:40,955 Speaker 1: he began with the opening line was on the road 476 00:35:41,155 --> 00:35:47,755 Speaker 1: to Mandalay. And I've bet a million viewers worldwide involuntarily 477 00:35:47,795 --> 00:35:52,475 Speaker 1: thought where the flying fishies play. It's not what you 478 00:35:52,515 --> 00:35:56,755 Speaker 1: want to think during a terrible earthquake aftermath, but there 479 00:35:56,755 --> 00:35:59,955 Speaker 1: it is. As I said, I'm sure it had to 480 00:35:59,995 --> 00:36:03,395 Speaker 1: have been accidental. So I'm leaving the reporter's name out, 481 00:36:03,595 --> 00:36:07,835 Speaker 1: but somebody still should said no, no, just erase that 482 00:36:08,355 --> 00:36:11,875 Speaker 1: opening line or cut out the on, so he just 483 00:36:11,955 --> 00:36:16,955 Speaker 1: says the road to Mandalay. I mean, that's kind of 484 00:36:16,995 --> 00:36:20,755 Speaker 1: an invocation of the line, but it's not. I'm going 485 00:36:20,835 --> 00:36:24,235 Speaker 1: to start this tragic story with a quotation from a 486 00:36:24,355 --> 00:36:30,435 Speaker 1: song from two songs to be fair, As I said, 487 00:36:30,675 --> 00:36:33,955 Speaker 1: I'm sure it's an accident. The reporter, not a native 488 00:36:34,075 --> 00:36:39,915 Speaker 1: English speaker, was in fact on the road to Mandalay. 489 00:36:40,755 --> 00:36:44,235 Speaker 1: The runner up worser Matt Taibi, who has no such excuse. 490 00:36:44,595 --> 00:36:46,795 Speaker 1: You remember him when he was an independent journalist before 491 00:36:46,795 --> 00:36:49,075 Speaker 1: he became a stooge for Elon Musk, who then did 492 00:36:49,195 --> 00:36:52,315 Speaker 1: Musk's bidding, then got banished by Musk, and is now 493 00:36:52,315 --> 00:36:55,995 Speaker 1: on the fringes of right wing conspiracy theory. It's a shame. 494 00:36:56,035 --> 00:36:58,755 Speaker 1: He was a good kid. He did good work for 495 00:36:58,835 --> 00:37:01,275 Speaker 1: me on Countdown. His dad was a great reporter. He's 496 00:37:01,315 --> 00:37:06,595 Speaker 1: turned into like Joe paranoia. In a great illustration of 497 00:37:06,595 --> 00:37:10,475 Speaker 1: what democrats should do when the fascists stage their show 498 00:37:10,515 --> 00:37:16,315 Speaker 1: hearings in Congress over bullshit, California Congressman Sidney Kamliger Dove 499 00:37:16,755 --> 00:37:21,235 Speaker 1: decided to have Matt tayebe for lunch here. They have 500 00:37:21,395 --> 00:37:24,635 Speaker 1: called him to testify, as they turned the first hearing 501 00:37:24,675 --> 00:37:28,915 Speaker 1: of the sub Committee on South and Central Asia into 502 00:37:28,955 --> 00:37:34,155 Speaker 1: instead hearing on how conservatives are censored. This is the 503 00:37:34,195 --> 00:37:37,875 Speaker 1: fifth of these hearings they've already had into how they 504 00:37:37,915 --> 00:37:44,195 Speaker 1: never get to talk at hearings. After this from Congresswoman 505 00:37:44,275 --> 00:37:47,995 Speaker 1: Kamlegger Dove, I don't think Matt Tayibi will be willing 506 00:37:48,035 --> 00:37:51,435 Speaker 1: to testify at any more of these goddamned hearings. 507 00:37:52,235 --> 00:37:57,075 Speaker 2: Majority is relitigating a made up conspiracy theory about a 508 00:37:57,115 --> 00:38:00,275 Speaker 2: part of the State Department that no longer exists. To 509 00:38:00,395 --> 00:38:04,395 Speaker 2: distract from the dumpster fire foreign policy. This administration is 510 00:38:04,435 --> 00:38:09,275 Speaker 2: per suing and elevating a serial sexual harasser as their 511 00:38:09,315 --> 00:38:13,675 Speaker 2: star witness in the process. Mister Chair, I request unanimous 512 00:38:13,715 --> 00:38:17,235 Speaker 2: consent to enter into the record two articles about the 513 00:38:17,275 --> 00:38:21,195 Speaker 2: Republican witness, Matt Taybee. The first is a Chicago Reader 514 00:38:21,315 --> 00:38:25,155 Speaker 2: article entitled twenty years ago in Moscow, Matt Taybe was 515 00:38:25,195 --> 00:38:29,515 Speaker 2: a misogynist a whole and possibly worse, and a Washington 516 00:38:29,555 --> 00:38:33,235 Speaker 2: Post article titled the two expat bros Who terrorized women 517 00:38:33,355 --> 00:38:37,795 Speaker 2: correspondence in Moscow with out ob check. This hearing could 518 00:38:37,875 --> 00:38:39,875 Speaker 2: not be more out of touch with the concerns of 519 00:38:39,915 --> 00:38:44,835 Speaker 2: everyday Americans. People's retirement savings are being decimated as Trump's 520 00:38:44,915 --> 00:38:49,075 Speaker 2: arbitrary temper tariffs tank the stock market. They are staring 521 00:38:49,115 --> 00:38:51,875 Speaker 2: down the barrel of cuts to their Social Security and 522 00:38:51,995 --> 00:38:54,915 Speaker 2: Medicare because the Republican majority wants to give a tax 523 00:38:54,955 --> 00:38:58,315 Speaker 2: break to billionaires like Elon Musk, who have deep financial 524 00:38:58,355 --> 00:39:01,875 Speaker 2: ties to our adversaries. Meanwhile, Trump is siding with Putin, 525 00:39:01,915 --> 00:39:05,075 Speaker 2: against our national security interests, and risking the lives of 526 00:39:05,115 --> 00:39:08,675 Speaker 2: American soldiers. In a signal group chat, I've been to 527 00:39:08,755 --> 00:39:12,395 Speaker 2: the State Department, and I do have concerns about censorship. 528 00:39:12,595 --> 00:39:16,155 Speaker 2: Censorship of the employees who are terrified to say the 529 00:39:16,235 --> 00:39:19,395 Speaker 2: wrong thing, to say anything, or have the wrong word 530 00:39:19,435 --> 00:39:22,435 Speaker 2: in their job title, and be terminated by an administration 531 00:39:22,555 --> 00:39:26,915 Speaker 2: that publicly relishes punishing people for their speech. If we 532 00:39:26,955 --> 00:39:29,715 Speaker 2: want to talk about censorship, we should begin with Trump's 533 00:39:29,795 --> 00:39:32,955 Speaker 2: unprecedented assault on the First Amendment and rule of law. 534 00:39:33,475 --> 00:39:37,275 Speaker 1: Hey, Matt, we're all those clippings in the Twitter files, hobro. 535 00:39:39,915 --> 00:39:42,475 Speaker 1: We'll help you scoop the rest of your reputation up 536 00:39:42,515 --> 00:39:44,915 Speaker 1: with this spoon in this terreen and you can just 537 00:39:44,955 --> 00:39:48,515 Speaker 1: carry it out with you, but the winner the worst 538 00:39:48,955 --> 00:39:52,515 Speaker 1: a man named Richard Carlson. You've never heard of Richard Carlson, 539 00:39:52,555 --> 00:39:55,915 Speaker 1: but a long time ago he was a scumbag posing 540 00:39:55,955 --> 00:39:59,595 Speaker 1: as a journalist in TV in California, mostly San Diego 541 00:39:59,675 --> 00:40:02,475 Speaker 1: and La. As The New York Times noted the other day, 542 00:40:02,515 --> 00:40:07,075 Speaker 1: Carlson quote collaborated with another journalist, Lance Brisson, on an 543 00:40:07,155 --> 00:40:10,795 Speaker 1: expose for Look Magazine in nineteen sixty nine that accused 544 00:40:11,035 --> 00:40:14,435 Speaker 1: Mayor Joseph Alioto of San Francisco of having ties to 545 00:40:14,555 --> 00:40:20,195 Speaker 1: mafia figures. Mister Alioto sued Looks owner Cowell's Communications for libel. 546 00:40:20,595 --> 00:40:25,195 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy seven, six years after Look magazine had folded, 547 00:40:25,395 --> 00:40:29,075 Speaker 1: and following four trials in federal court, a judge awarded 548 00:40:29,115 --> 00:40:32,795 Speaker 1: mister Alioto three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in damages. 549 00:40:33,155 --> 00:40:37,475 Speaker 1: Mister Carlson and brister Berson were not defendants. In nineteen 550 00:40:37,555 --> 00:40:42,395 Speaker 1: seventy five, mister Carlson exposed a transgender automobile executive on 551 00:40:42,475 --> 00:40:45,835 Speaker 1: TV in Los Angeles, even though the real story was 552 00:40:46,315 --> 00:40:50,555 Speaker 1: all the lies about her claims about her special car 553 00:40:50,635 --> 00:40:53,875 Speaker 1: that got I don't know seventy miles per gallon so 554 00:40:53,955 --> 00:40:58,115 Speaker 1: She sued two and when Carlson testified against her, he 555 00:40:58,195 --> 00:41:02,035 Speaker 1: continually referred to this woman as he and him after 556 00:41:02,035 --> 00:41:04,195 Speaker 1: he got fired in La After that he had to 557 00:41:04,195 --> 00:41:08,035 Speaker 1: move down to San Diego as a sportscaster. Somebody told 558 00:41:08,115 --> 00:41:10,635 Speaker 1: him that the doctor who had just won a local 559 00:41:10,715 --> 00:41:14,715 Speaker 1: women's tennis tournament was also transgender, so he phoned her 560 00:41:14,755 --> 00:41:17,515 Speaker 1: and said he was going to expose her on his sportscast. 561 00:41:17,915 --> 00:41:20,995 Speaker 1: She replied, mister Carlson, I am a private person. You 562 00:41:21,035 --> 00:41:25,235 Speaker 1: can't do that. He replied, doctor Richards, you were until 563 00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:29,315 Speaker 1: you won that tournament in La Joya yesterday. She pleaded 564 00:41:29,315 --> 00:41:31,915 Speaker 1: with him to respect her privacy. He went on the 565 00:41:31,915 --> 00:41:35,795 Speaker 1: air anyway and announced a man has just won the 566 00:41:35,875 --> 00:41:39,635 Speaker 1: La Joya women's tennis tournament. She hurriedly called a news 567 00:41:39,675 --> 00:41:42,555 Speaker 1: conference and had to explain not just her story to 568 00:41:42,595 --> 00:41:46,155 Speaker 1: the media, but the promise of and premissive transsexuals and 569 00:41:46,195 --> 00:41:50,075 Speaker 1: transgenders as a whole, because then people didn't really understand 570 00:41:50,075 --> 00:41:54,715 Speaker 1: what it was all about. Her name is doctor Renee Richards, 571 00:41:54,755 --> 00:41:57,115 Speaker 1: and to this day she remains not only one of 572 00:41:57,155 --> 00:41:59,995 Speaker 1: the very best doctors I've ever had the privilege to consult, 573 00:42:00,475 --> 00:42:03,915 Speaker 1: she's eyes specialist, although she just retired at the age 574 00:42:03,915 --> 00:42:07,355 Speaker 1: of ninety. Eye muscles and eye muscle surgery the best 575 00:42:07,355 --> 00:42:11,195 Speaker 1: in the world, probably, I've known her forty three years. 576 00:42:11,555 --> 00:42:13,915 Speaker 1: But she's also one of the best and funniest people 577 00:42:13,915 --> 00:42:15,995 Speaker 1: I've ever known, And she taught me more about what 578 00:42:16,035 --> 00:42:18,715 Speaker 1: it is like when one of us does a story 579 00:42:18,755 --> 00:42:22,995 Speaker 1: on somebody taught me, Yeah, it's my story, but guess what, 580 00:42:23,115 --> 00:42:26,155 Speaker 1: it's their life. You've got to try to consider that. 581 00:42:26,835 --> 00:42:29,115 Speaker 1: I am happy to say I had the privilege of 582 00:42:29,155 --> 00:42:33,595 Speaker 1: informing Renee Richards that Richard Carlson is now dead. He 583 00:42:33,715 --> 00:42:38,675 Speaker 1: died March twenty fourth. She was dignified and restrained and 584 00:42:38,795 --> 00:42:40,915 Speaker 1: did not even make a big deal out of the 585 00:42:40,915 --> 00:42:46,355 Speaker 1: fact that she won. I did. Maybe she didn't because 586 00:42:46,435 --> 00:42:51,635 Speaker 1: she and the rest of the world knew that this bad, unqualified, unprincipled, unsuccessful, 587 00:42:51,835 --> 00:42:56,635 Speaker 1: hate filled dead bastard did something even worse than involuntarily 588 00:42:56,675 --> 00:43:00,475 Speaker 1: outing transsexual women and then trying to make up excuses 589 00:43:00,755 --> 00:43:04,315 Speaker 1: for some public right to know for doing so. About 590 00:43:04,435 --> 00:43:10,275 Speaker 1: ten Richard Carlson did something worse than that, because Richard 591 00:43:10,315 --> 00:43:13,995 Speaker 1: Carlson was the father of Tucker Carlson, probably more of 592 00:43:14,035 --> 00:43:17,955 Speaker 1: a fascist and probably more unhinged and dangerous even than 593 00:43:17,955 --> 00:43:22,475 Speaker 1: his sick, dead father. I would add that under ordinary circumstances, 594 00:43:22,515 --> 00:43:27,115 Speaker 1: it is disturbing to feel oneself expressing anything but sadness 595 00:43:27,275 --> 00:43:30,595 Speaker 1: at the death of another human being or at the 596 00:43:30,635 --> 00:43:33,595 Speaker 1: mourning of those humans they have left behind. But you 597 00:43:33,595 --> 00:43:36,555 Speaker 1: would first have to convince me that Richard and Tucker 598 00:43:36,635 --> 00:43:40,875 Speaker 1: Carlson were ever human beings before I would feel that way. 599 00:43:41,435 --> 00:43:43,875 Speaker 1: I feel none of what I normally do, none of 600 00:43:43,875 --> 00:43:48,115 Speaker 1: this for whom the bell tolls stuff that bell is 601 00:43:48,155 --> 00:43:52,835 Speaker 1: not tolling for me. Richard Carlson left television a year 602 00:43:52,875 --> 00:43:57,315 Speaker 1: after he outed Renee. He later told San Diego Magazine 603 00:43:57,315 --> 00:44:02,875 Speaker 1: that he considered television news quote insipid, sophomoric, and superficial. Oddly, 604 00:44:02,995 --> 00:44:05,395 Speaker 1: that's a pretty good summary of his life, and his 605 00:44:05,555 --> 00:44:09,915 Speaker 1: sons put it this way. Renee Richards was twice the 606 00:44:09,995 --> 00:44:15,075 Speaker 1: man that Richard Carlson ever was, and probably two hundred 607 00:44:15,115 --> 00:44:20,595 Speaker 1: times the woman. Richard Dick Carlson, and the name Dick 608 00:44:20,955 --> 00:44:24,355 Speaker 1: was just a remarkable coincidence. I will note that though 609 00:44:24,355 --> 00:44:27,115 Speaker 1: he died on March twenty fourth, his son announced it 610 00:44:27,155 --> 00:44:30,955 Speaker 1: over last weekend, and it got wide public play this 611 00:44:31,115 --> 00:44:38,835 Speaker 1: past Monday, which was the National Transgender Day of Visibility. 612 00:44:39,875 --> 00:44:44,155 Speaker 1: Revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to 613 00:44:44,315 --> 00:44:52,995 Speaker 1: eat cold. Dick Carlson Today's worst person in the world. Well, 614 00:44:53,035 --> 00:44:55,475 Speaker 1: not really. He's not here anymore, is he. So at 615 00:44:55,555 --> 00:45:15,635 Speaker 1: least that corner of this country is now better. It 616 00:45:15,715 --> 00:45:18,075 Speaker 1: is unlikely that you have ever been able to do 617 00:45:18,195 --> 00:45:21,035 Speaker 1: anything about Chuck Todd, so I wanted to tell you 618 00:45:21,075 --> 00:45:23,595 Speaker 1: of the day that I did do something about him. 619 00:45:23,635 --> 00:45:27,915 Speaker 1: That day was August eleventh, twenty nineteen. I knew Chuck 620 00:45:27,955 --> 00:45:30,955 Speaker 1: for about fifteen years, early in his career, when he 621 00:45:31,035 --> 00:45:34,195 Speaker 1: was with the DC Insider publication the Hotline. He was 622 00:45:34,275 --> 00:45:37,595 Speaker 1: a frequent guest on Countdown, and in two thousand and seven, 623 00:45:37,595 --> 00:45:40,395 Speaker 1: when Tim Russert was thinking of hiring him at NBC News, 624 00:45:40,755 --> 00:45:44,035 Speaker 1: mine was one of dozens of temperatures Tim took. As 625 00:45:44,115 --> 00:45:46,595 Speaker 1: Chuck later wrote to me, quote, you certainly were a 626 00:45:46,595 --> 00:45:49,395 Speaker 1: tremendous advocate and cheerleader for me over the years, and 627 00:45:49,475 --> 00:45:52,795 Speaker 1: I don't forget that. Yeah, well that wasn't true. He 628 00:45:52,835 --> 00:45:54,955 Speaker 1: forgot it, all right, But I'm veering away from the 629 00:45:55,035 --> 00:45:57,795 Speaker 1: main story. In two thousand and eight, a couple of 630 00:45:57,875 --> 00:46:02,195 Speaker 1: Washington political types started a fantasy football league. If you 631 00:46:02,235 --> 00:46:05,635 Speaker 1: don't think fantasy football leagues are important, you should know 632 00:46:05,675 --> 00:46:10,635 Speaker 1: that last spring, a major league baseball player in uniform 633 00:46:10,955 --> 00:46:14,515 Speaker 1: walked up to another Major League baseball player in uniform 634 00:46:14,835 --> 00:46:18,075 Speaker 1: on a Major League baseball field with thousands of people 635 00:46:18,155 --> 00:46:21,435 Speaker 1: already in the stands, and he slapped him in the 636 00:46:21,515 --> 00:46:25,995 Speaker 1: face over a roster move that the second player had 637 00:46:26,035 --> 00:46:29,675 Speaker 1: made in their fantasy football league. The second guy had 638 00:46:29,715 --> 00:46:32,715 Speaker 1: managed to retain the rights to an injured player, and 639 00:46:32,755 --> 00:46:34,995 Speaker 1: the first guy was upset about this. So six months 640 00:46:35,035 --> 00:46:38,435 Speaker 1: after their fantasy season ended, this major league baseball player 641 00:46:38,475 --> 00:46:41,475 Speaker 1: walked up and slapped the other Major League baseball player. 642 00:46:43,475 --> 00:46:47,995 Speaker 1: If slaps or duels or kidnappings are not everyday occurrences 643 00:46:48,035 --> 00:46:51,195 Speaker 1: in fantasy football, they do represent the kind of baseline 644 00:46:51,235 --> 00:46:54,235 Speaker 1: intensity of the thing. So when I and others were 645 00:46:54,275 --> 00:46:57,515 Speaker 1: approached about this Washington centric league in two thousand and eight, 646 00:46:57,515 --> 00:47:00,315 Speaker 1: it was already a big deal, even before we were 647 00:47:00,355 --> 00:47:04,115 Speaker 1: all sworn to secrecy, because a spot in the league 648 00:47:04,155 --> 00:47:09,035 Speaker 1: was being for some DC guy named Barack Obama. It 649 00:47:09,075 --> 00:47:12,275 Speaker 1: turned out he did not join our league, some excuse 650 00:47:12,355 --> 00:47:15,755 Speaker 1: about too much work, when obviously he was just afraid 651 00:47:15,835 --> 00:47:19,275 Speaker 1: of my fantasy football skills. But some people in his 652 00:47:19,315 --> 00:47:21,675 Speaker 1: white house did join the league, and I still will 653 00:47:21,675 --> 00:47:24,195 Speaker 1: not identify them, because the premise of this league was 654 00:47:24,275 --> 00:47:26,795 Speaker 1: the first rule of fantasy football club is you do 655 00:47:26,875 --> 00:47:29,715 Speaker 1: not talk about fantasy football club. I will say that 656 00:47:29,795 --> 00:47:32,515 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd, like me, was an original player. We call 657 00:47:32,555 --> 00:47:36,395 Speaker 1: ourselves owners because we are nuts and it's a fantasy. 658 00:47:36,395 --> 00:47:40,595 Speaker 1: It's in the title Fantasy Football Fantasy Football Owners. And 659 00:47:40,715 --> 00:47:42,995 Speaker 1: one year, I think it was twenty ten, I had 660 00:47:42,995 --> 00:47:45,715 Speaker 1: assembled in this league, mostly by accident, a team that 661 00:47:45,835 --> 00:47:49,955 Speaker 1: was almost perfect. It literally lost one game all season, 662 00:47:50,395 --> 00:47:52,275 Speaker 1: and that was in the middle of the year to 663 00:47:52,475 --> 00:47:55,395 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd's team. And the night after I lost to 664 00:47:55,515 --> 00:47:58,195 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd's team, he was giving a speech I think 665 00:47:58,235 --> 00:48:01,795 Speaker 1: at the University of Virginia, and witnesses called to tell 666 00:48:01,875 --> 00:48:05,195 Speaker 1: me that he began his speech by saying, I have 667 00:48:05,275 --> 00:48:07,035 Speaker 1: much to tell you, but first I have to tell 668 00:48:07,035 --> 00:48:08,875 Speaker 1: you that I am in a fantasy football league with 669 00:48:08,955 --> 00:48:11,035 Speaker 1: Keith Lderman, and he has a great team this year, 670 00:48:11,075 --> 00:48:13,355 Speaker 1: and this week I upset him by a final score 671 00:48:13,355 --> 00:48:15,315 Speaker 1: of one hundred forty three to one hundred and forty 672 00:48:15,355 --> 00:48:17,835 Speaker 1: one or whatever the score was. I thought it was 673 00:48:18,315 --> 00:48:22,035 Speaker 1: pretty dumb. But by twenty ten, Chuck was the NBC 674 00:48:22,115 --> 00:48:25,675 Speaker 1: News White House correspondent, and we all cringed whenever we 675 00:48:25,755 --> 00:48:27,395 Speaker 1: saw he was going to be on with one of 676 00:48:27,475 --> 00:48:31,955 Speaker 1: us on MSNBC. See, some people respond well to pressure 677 00:48:31,995 --> 00:48:35,315 Speaker 1: and success, and some people do not, and some people 678 00:48:35,355 --> 00:48:39,435 Speaker 1: become entirely different people. So when Chuck violated the prime 679 00:48:39,515 --> 00:48:42,315 Speaker 1: directive of this fantasy football league and talked about it, 680 00:48:42,795 --> 00:48:45,795 Speaker 1: I shrugged. The other guys in the league did not. 681 00:48:46,315 --> 00:48:49,755 Speaker 1: Chuck was actually punished. The commissioner of the league ordered 682 00:48:49,795 --> 00:48:51,875 Speaker 1: that he had to skip his fourth choice in the 683 00:48:51,875 --> 00:48:56,995 Speaker 1: following year's player draft. Chuck was berefed. He believed this 684 00:48:57,035 --> 00:49:01,475 Speaker 1: would destroy his chances. He apologized to me every week, 685 00:49:01,515 --> 00:49:03,635 Speaker 1: and finally I said, you know, guys, maybe this is 686 00:49:03,675 --> 00:49:06,595 Speaker 1: too much. And as the supposed victim in the equation, 687 00:49:06,755 --> 00:49:09,715 Speaker 1: I got final say and Chuck got to keep his 688 00:49:09,835 --> 00:49:14,395 Speaker 1: fourth draft choice. By twenty sixteen, Chuck was because Tim 689 00:49:14,475 --> 00:49:17,955 Speaker 1: Russeer died, Tom Brokaw retired, and David Gregory flamed out. 690 00:49:18,475 --> 00:49:20,675 Speaker 1: Chuck was the host of Meet the Press. He was 691 00:49:20,715 --> 00:49:23,875 Speaker 1: also political director of NBC News, another part of Russer's 692 00:49:23,875 --> 00:49:27,595 Speaker 1: old portfolio, but whereas Tim was a master who could 693 00:49:27,595 --> 00:49:30,795 Speaker 1: convince the Republicans, he was ordering that I be punished 694 00:49:30,795 --> 00:49:33,115 Speaker 1: for what I said, when in fact he would be 695 00:49:33,155 --> 00:49:35,715 Speaker 1: calling me and asking me what stupid, meaningless thing I 696 00:49:35,755 --> 00:49:38,675 Speaker 1: could think of to tell the Republicans. He was punishing 697 00:49:38,715 --> 00:49:43,835 Speaker 1: me with or four. He was sublime, subtlety, not Chuck. 698 00:49:44,355 --> 00:49:48,115 Speaker 1: No subtlety there. In twenty sixteen, Chuck was preparing to 699 00:49:48,155 --> 00:49:51,715 Speaker 1: not name my ex lib in girlfriend Katie Turr as 700 00:49:51,755 --> 00:49:54,675 Speaker 1: the new NBC White House correspondent, even though she had 701 00:49:54,715 --> 00:49:58,555 Speaker 1: suffered as the primary NBC correspondent covering the Trump campaign, 702 00:49:59,035 --> 00:50:01,395 Speaker 1: and out of nowhere, Chuck emails me that he's going 703 00:50:01,435 --> 00:50:03,075 Speaker 1: to be in New York and he wants to take 704 00:50:03,075 --> 00:50:06,035 Speaker 1: me to dinner. I had known him more than a 705 00:50:06,075 --> 00:50:08,435 Speaker 1: decade by then, we had never as much as shared 706 00:50:08,435 --> 00:50:10,755 Speaker 1: pieces of the same pizza. I had not seen him 707 00:50:10,755 --> 00:50:12,915 Speaker 1: in the flesh in more than five years, and I 708 00:50:12,995 --> 00:50:15,715 Speaker 1: knew as we sat down that Chuck's idea was to 709 00:50:15,795 --> 00:50:18,915 Speaker 1: get me to tell Katie that she was not going 710 00:50:18,955 --> 00:50:20,875 Speaker 1: to be White House correspondent so he did not have to. 711 00:50:21,355 --> 00:50:23,875 Speaker 1: He kept bringing it up, what do you think Katie 712 00:50:23,875 --> 00:50:28,035 Speaker 1: would think? And then I'd switch the topic to fantasy football, 713 00:50:28,315 --> 00:50:30,035 Speaker 1: and then he'd say, but let me ask you about 714 00:50:30,075 --> 00:50:31,955 Speaker 1: Katie in the White House job. We did this for 715 00:50:32,035 --> 00:50:36,595 Speaker 1: ninety minutes, and finally I said, Okay, Chuck, I've avoided 716 00:50:36,635 --> 00:50:39,675 Speaker 1: it long enough. Maybe I could call her and soften 717 00:50:39,715 --> 00:50:42,195 Speaker 1: the blow for her. And that's when he said, well, 718 00:50:42,595 --> 00:50:44,435 Speaker 1: I'm going back to DC tonight, so if I want 719 00:50:44,475 --> 00:50:49,195 Speaker 1: to catch that last train, I better leave. Bye. Chuck 720 00:50:49,275 --> 00:50:52,515 Speaker 1: is not subtle. I'll spare you the other crap from 721 00:50:52,515 --> 00:50:54,915 Speaker 1: the fantasy league. Suffice to say, I was reminded of 722 00:50:54,915 --> 00:50:57,715 Speaker 1: how annoyingly and obviously he used to conduct himself when 723 00:50:57,715 --> 00:51:00,995 Speaker 1: I read that last May, one of Chuck's guest bookers 724 00:51:01,035 --> 00:51:04,915 Speaker 1: for the now no longer on TV Meet the Press Daily, Joe, 725 00:51:05,355 --> 00:51:08,595 Speaker 1: had emailed the office of Alaska Congressman Don Jung, hoping 726 00:51:08,595 --> 00:51:10,475 Speaker 1: to get Young to appear the next day, which would 727 00:51:10,515 --> 00:51:13,835 Speaker 1: have been the ultimate great guest get because Don Jung 728 00:51:13,915 --> 00:51:18,715 Speaker 1: had died two months earlier. Anyway, this fantasy football league 729 00:51:18,755 --> 00:51:21,075 Speaker 1: was fun and unique in that there had only been 730 00:51:21,115 --> 00:51:24,835 Speaker 1: one change in its composition in all that time. Chuck's 731 00:51:24,835 --> 00:51:27,955 Speaker 1: team defeated mine in the Fantasy Football super Bowl one year, 732 00:51:29,235 --> 00:51:32,555 Speaker 1: and mostly he was just annoying, like he was on 733 00:51:32,595 --> 00:51:36,115 Speaker 1: the air, nothing worse than that. And then on June nineteenth, 734 00:51:36,155 --> 00:51:41,635 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Representative Alexandria Ocazio Cortes AOC ripped the Trump 735 00:51:41,675 --> 00:51:45,355 Speaker 1: administration's migrant policies. She said, quote, the United States is 736 00:51:45,435 --> 00:51:47,795 Speaker 1: running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is 737 00:51:47,835 --> 00:51:50,995 Speaker 1: exactly what they are. They are concentration camps. End quote. 738 00:51:51,475 --> 00:51:55,035 Speaker 1: Chuck went on MSNBC and said the following in response, quote, 739 00:51:55,235 --> 00:51:57,875 Speaker 1: you can call our government's detention of migrants many things, 740 00:51:57,875 --> 00:52:00,035 Speaker 1: depending on how you see it. It's a stain on 741 00:52:00,075 --> 00:52:03,835 Speaker 1: our nation, maybe a necessary evil to others to deal 742 00:52:03,875 --> 00:52:06,955 Speaker 1: with an unten situation, perhaps, but do you know what 743 00:52:06,995 --> 00:52:09,555 Speaker 1: you can't call it. Chuck then played the clip of 744 00:52:09,595 --> 00:52:13,035 Speaker 1: AOC calling it concentration camps, and Chuck resumed, if you 745 00:52:13,075 --> 00:52:15,515 Speaker 1: want to criticize the shameful treatment of people at our 746 00:52:15,555 --> 00:52:17,995 Speaker 1: southern border, fine, you'll have plenty of company, but be 747 00:52:18,155 --> 00:52:23,875 Speaker 1: careful comparing them to Nazi concentration camps, because they're not 748 00:52:23,915 --> 00:52:26,915 Speaker 1: at all comparable. In the slightest A lot of people 749 00:52:27,355 --> 00:52:32,515 Speaker 1: me included, were stunned. Ocasio Cortes never mentioned the Nazis 750 00:52:33,035 --> 00:52:36,635 Speaker 1: and concentration camps did not begin with the Nazis or Hitler. 751 00:52:36,915 --> 00:52:39,595 Speaker 1: They began with the British in the Boer War in 752 00:52:39,635 --> 00:52:42,315 Speaker 1: South Africa at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 753 00:52:42,435 --> 00:52:44,635 Speaker 1: Yet here was Chuck putting a word in her mouth, 754 00:52:44,955 --> 00:52:47,795 Speaker 1: and that word was Nazi, and then he attacked her 755 00:52:47,835 --> 00:52:50,955 Speaker 1: for something she never said. He lied about her. He lied, 756 00:52:51,315 --> 00:52:55,235 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd made it up on the news. I was 757 00:52:55,315 --> 00:52:58,315 Speaker 1: furious enough to email him that night. I thought by 758 00:52:58,355 --> 00:53:01,355 Speaker 1: now somebody at NBC would have pointed out that concentration 759 00:53:01,475 --> 00:53:05,835 Speaker 1: camps and Nazi death camps are not the same. But no, 760 00:53:06,155 --> 00:53:09,395 Speaker 1: NBC had simply tweeted out the clip of Chuck lying 761 00:53:09,435 --> 00:53:12,715 Speaker 1: about the congresswoman and putting the word Nazi in her mouth, 762 00:53:12,995 --> 00:53:16,715 Speaker 1: as if it were something NBC News should be proud of. 763 00:53:18,195 --> 00:53:22,595 Speaker 1: Chuck was furious at me. He emailed back, quote, come on, 764 00:53:22,795 --> 00:53:24,795 Speaker 1: own up, that she invoked the wrong image and should 765 00:53:24,795 --> 00:53:27,035 Speaker 1: have simply walked the imagery back. And I wrote him 766 00:53:27,035 --> 00:53:29,035 Speaker 1: back that the person who had to walk back imagery 767 00:53:29,075 --> 00:53:32,435 Speaker 1: here was him, since he had said Nazi and she 768 00:53:32,555 --> 00:53:36,675 Speaker 1: had not said Nazi. On my angriest day, he now replied, 769 00:53:36,795 --> 00:53:38,675 Speaker 1: I'd like to think I treated you with more respect 770 00:53:38,715 --> 00:53:42,115 Speaker 1: than this. Sad I feel like we won't recover from this, 771 00:53:42,155 --> 00:53:45,155 Speaker 1: and we had recovered from a lot. I wrote back 772 00:53:45,195 --> 00:53:47,195 Speaker 1: to Chuck that we weren't going to recover from anything 773 00:53:47,195 --> 00:53:50,395 Speaker 1: if he insisted that all concentration camps were Nazi death 774 00:53:50,475 --> 00:53:54,075 Speaker 1: camps and that somebody who never said Nazis owed somebody 775 00:53:54,075 --> 00:53:59,235 Speaker 1: else an apology for what not saying Nazis. There was 776 00:53:59,275 --> 00:54:01,795 Speaker 1: no getting past the reality that Chuck had no idea 777 00:54:01,795 --> 00:54:04,915 Speaker 1: that he was one hundred percent in the wrong here, 778 00:54:05,115 --> 00:54:09,715 Speaker 1: historically wrong, factually wrong, ethically wrong, not a leg to 779 00:54:09,835 --> 00:54:14,275 Speaker 1: stand on. So I of course began to contemplate the 780 00:54:14,315 --> 00:54:19,435 Speaker 1: year ahead in fantasy football. I couldn't face it. I'm sorry, 781 00:54:19,755 --> 00:54:22,635 Speaker 1: I let real life and fantasy sports mix, and I 782 00:54:22,795 --> 00:54:26,555 Speaker 1: just I just couldn't spend another autumn having to deal 783 00:54:26,635 --> 00:54:30,395 Speaker 1: with Chuck Todd. Chuck had often said that he was 784 00:54:30,435 --> 00:54:32,755 Speaker 1: now just too busy to play in the league anymore, 785 00:54:33,315 --> 00:54:36,035 Speaker 1: and he would have to leave it this year. So 786 00:54:36,195 --> 00:54:40,115 Speaker 1: on August eleventh, twenty nineteen, more in sadness than an anger, 787 00:54:40,195 --> 00:54:42,955 Speaker 1: I asked the commissioner of the league if Chuck was 788 00:54:42,995 --> 00:54:46,155 Speaker 1: coming back for the twenty nineteen season. I don't know, 789 00:54:46,755 --> 00:54:49,595 Speaker 1: maybe not, was the answer. I said, Look, this is 790 00:54:49,715 --> 00:54:52,595 Speaker 1: not him or me. I'm not asking you to not 791 00:54:52,795 --> 00:54:55,275 Speaker 1: let him come back. It's not like that. But if 792 00:54:55,315 --> 00:54:57,115 Speaker 1: he tells you one way or the other, let me know, 793 00:54:57,155 --> 00:54:59,995 Speaker 1: because I just can't stand another year of him. He 794 00:55:00,115 --> 00:55:02,235 Speaker 1: takes all the fun of it out of it for me. 795 00:55:03,035 --> 00:55:05,555 Speaker 1: I understand, said the commissioner. It's a but why do 796 00:55:05,635 --> 00:55:08,995 Speaker 1: it if it's not fun. At eight am on the 797 00:55:08,995 --> 00:55:12,515 Speaker 1: morning of August fourteenth, twenty nineteen, the official email notifying 798 00:55:12,515 --> 00:55:15,635 Speaker 1: everybody of the new fantasy football season went out. I 799 00:55:15,755 --> 00:55:19,755 Speaker 1: was not listed among the players. Nineteen minutes later, I 800 00:55:19,795 --> 00:55:22,635 Speaker 1: got an email from Chuck Todd's subject line, it's just 801 00:55:22,675 --> 00:55:26,555 Speaker 1: a game content quote just play. I won't speak to you, 802 00:55:26,755 --> 00:55:29,155 Speaker 1: and please do me the same courtesy. Grow the f 803 00:55:29,315 --> 00:55:32,155 Speaker 1: up and know I am not editing this. He really wrote, 804 00:55:32,835 --> 00:55:36,435 Speaker 1: grow the f up. I wrote back that I thought 805 00:55:36,475 --> 00:55:38,955 Speaker 1: he'd become part of the problem that imperils our nation 806 00:55:39,355 --> 00:55:40,915 Speaker 1: and I didn't want to have anything more to do 807 00:55:40,995 --> 00:55:44,075 Speaker 1: with him. I ended it with quote, do not contact 808 00:55:44,115 --> 00:55:49,595 Speaker 1: me again. At ten thirteen am, he contacted me again. Amazing, 809 00:55:49,635 --> 00:55:51,795 Speaker 1: how you believe what you believe about me? I'm sorry 810 00:55:51,875 --> 00:55:56,395 Speaker 1: for ever helping you get credibility. I did not reply. 811 00:55:56,595 --> 00:56:00,235 Speaker 1: At ten eighteen, he wrote me again again, I'm happy 812 00:56:00,315 --> 00:56:02,115 Speaker 1: to never speak with you again. I'd prefer to pretend 813 00:56:02,155 --> 00:56:06,675 Speaker 1: you don't exist. Don't make me care about you. No, boy, 814 00:56:07,275 --> 00:56:09,675 Speaker 1: when Chuck Todd asks you to not make him care 815 00:56:09,755 --> 00:56:12,635 Speaker 1: about you, you are in deep and dangerous waters. Boy. 816 00:56:13,635 --> 00:56:16,275 Speaker 1: Another Chuck email at ten twenty nine, you are truly 817 00:56:16,315 --> 00:56:18,875 Speaker 1: a tiny little man. I don't even feel sorry for 818 00:56:18,915 --> 00:56:21,875 Speaker 1: you anymore. You have done this to yourself, and here 819 00:56:22,555 --> 00:56:24,635 Speaker 1: I made a mistake. I did not ask him what 820 00:56:24,715 --> 00:56:27,595 Speaker 1: he felt sorry for me about and what I had 821 00:56:27,635 --> 00:56:30,955 Speaker 1: done to myself. I assume it was about losing the 822 00:56:30,955 --> 00:56:34,715 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen Fantasy Football super Bowl to him At eleven 823 00:56:34,715 --> 00:56:38,075 Speaker 1: oh nine, another email quote, you deliberately misinterpreted what I 824 00:56:38,115 --> 00:56:41,355 Speaker 1: said shot first, and then rationalized the mistaken shot with 825 00:56:41,435 --> 00:56:46,875 Speaker 1: some convoluted, full of bleef explanation. This presumably was the 826 00:56:46,875 --> 00:56:51,195 Speaker 1: silly little detail about him lying and saying Representative Ocasio 827 00:56:51,275 --> 00:56:54,795 Speaker 1: Cortes had referred to Nazi concentration camps. Then he wrote 828 00:56:55,795 --> 00:56:59,395 Speaker 1: that what she said quote evokes Gash Chambers, and I 829 00:56:59,435 --> 00:57:03,195 Speaker 1: think that's where we should leave it. A fantasy sports 830 00:57:03,275 --> 00:57:06,235 Speaker 1: league is just a fantasy sports league, And having been 831 00:57:06,235 --> 00:57:09,915 Speaker 1: in various kinds of them since nineteen good God eighty five, 832 00:57:10,555 --> 00:57:13,635 Speaker 1: I often wonder if they aren't a kind of therapeutic, 833 00:57:13,675 --> 00:57:18,315 Speaker 1: cathartic pressure valve for our inner demons. I do know this. 834 00:57:18,995 --> 00:57:21,875 Speaker 1: You find out a lot about the other people in 835 00:57:21,915 --> 00:57:26,355 Speaker 1: a fantasy sports league. So when that baseball player slapped 836 00:57:26,395 --> 00:57:29,115 Speaker 1: the other baseball player over the reserve running back that 837 00:57:29,115 --> 00:57:32,075 Speaker 1: he kept on his roster, and most people said, I 838 00:57:32,235 --> 00:57:35,555 Speaker 1: just don't understand why he slapped him, I said, oh, 839 00:57:36,275 --> 00:57:57,115 Speaker 1: I understand why he slapped him. Chuck Todd, billionaire. I've 840 00:57:57,155 --> 00:57:58,835 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 841 00:57:58,875 --> 00:58:01,955 Speaker 1: for listening. Brian Ray and John Phillip Scheneil, the musical 842 00:58:01,995 --> 00:58:05,395 Speaker 1: directors have Countdown, arranged, produced, and performed of our music. 843 00:58:05,755 --> 00:58:09,275 Speaker 1: Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on 844 00:58:09,315 --> 00:58:12,875 Speaker 1: the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 845 00:58:13,155 --> 00:58:15,635 Speaker 1: Our Satirical on fifty. Musical comments are by the best 846 00:58:15,635 --> 00:58:19,395 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is 847 00:58:19,395 --> 00:58:22,795 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 848 00:58:22,875 --> 00:58:26,595 Speaker 1: Davis and courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged and 849 00:58:26,635 --> 00:58:29,915 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today 850 00:58:29,995 --> 00:58:34,915 Speaker 1: was my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else was, as ever, 851 00:58:35,515 --> 00:58:40,435 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault one plug before I go on 852 00:58:40,475 --> 00:58:44,635 Speaker 1: October seventh of this year, at eleven fifteen pm Eastern daylight, 853 00:58:45,075 --> 00:58:48,675 Speaker 1: it will be the exact fiftieth anniversary of the day 854 00:58:48,715 --> 00:58:52,635 Speaker 1: I made my debut on an actual radio station that 855 00:58:52,755 --> 00:58:58,915 Speaker 1: people paid money to put commercials on. WVBRFM, the student owned, 856 00:58:59,315 --> 00:59:03,995 Speaker 1: student run commercial station at Cornell, now the community owned 857 00:59:03,995 --> 00:59:08,995 Speaker 1: commercial stateation of Cornell and Ithaca, New York and Tompkins County, 858 00:59:08,995 --> 00:59:14,155 Speaker 1: and the World Online operating from the palatial Olberman Cornelius 859 00:59:14,155 --> 00:59:18,115 Speaker 1: Studios on East Buffalo Street, Ithaca, New York. And if 860 00:59:18,115 --> 00:59:22,235 Speaker 1: October seventh is my fiftieth anniversary, that means that this Saturday, 861 00:59:22,275 --> 00:59:25,955 Speaker 1: April fifth is the date that my friend John Rudan 862 00:59:26,155 --> 00:59:31,475 Speaker 1: is celebrating his fiftieth anniversary hosting wvbr's oldie show Rock 863 00:59:31,555 --> 00:59:35,035 Speaker 1: and Remnants. Only John was able to keep his show 864 00:59:35,075 --> 00:59:39,035 Speaker 1: on WVBR, whereas Mind was canceled in nineteen seventy nine. 865 00:59:39,435 --> 00:59:42,315 Speaker 1: So congrats, John, You're a better man than I am, 866 00:59:42,635 --> 00:59:45,395 Speaker 1: and I hope that's a new windbreaker by now Rock 867 00:59:45,435 --> 00:59:53,595 Speaker 1: and remnants the Big Five. Oh Saturday Night WVBRFM. Be there, Aloha. 868 00:59:55,195 --> 00:59:57,795 Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, Just one three hundred and eighty 869 00:59:57,915 --> 01:00:00,115 Speaker 1: nine days until the scheduled end of his lame duck 870 01:00:00,315 --> 01:00:04,155 Speaker 1: and lame brained term, unless Musk removes him sooner. Please 871 01:00:04,235 --> 01:00:08,195 Speaker 1: don't move Musk Trump, Please leave Musk. Put him out 872 01:00:08,195 --> 01:00:10,475 Speaker 1: there every day, have him stand next to you during 873 01:00:10,515 --> 01:00:13,595 Speaker 1: the speeches, have him there all the time, all the time. 874 01:00:13,715 --> 01:00:17,115 Speaker 1: We want him there all the time. Seven ninety seven 875 01:00:17,115 --> 01:00:22,635 Speaker 1: percent disapproval in Wisconsin, ninety seven percent. The next scheduled 876 01:00:22,635 --> 01:00:26,395 Speaker 1: countdown is Monday, or as we're calling it here, Musk Day. 877 01:00:27,275 --> 01:00:30,675 Speaker 1: Tuesday is also going to be Musk Day. Wednesday will 878 01:00:30,675 --> 01:00:34,395 Speaker 1: be Musk Day. You get the point. As always, bulletins, 879 01:00:34,435 --> 01:00:37,395 Speaker 1: as the news warrants, remember im peach Trump. It won't 880 01:00:37,395 --> 01:00:40,995 Speaker 1: work now, it will win the Democrats the midterms, if 881 01:00:40,995 --> 01:00:47,435 Speaker 1: there are midterms, if they're just Musk terms. Until next time, 882 01:00:47,435 --> 01:00:50,035 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Overman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 883 01:00:50,235 --> 01:01:12,995 Speaker 1: good luck. 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